Shunshio 1 autumn.

Tang Niu led 200,000 troops to attack Chizhou, and Fu Lizhe defended Fujiang and commanded 100,000 troops to contend with it.

The two sides fought fiercely for several months, and Tang Niu successively conquered the five county towns of Qingniu, Yangquan, Tuji, Damao and Linxiang in Fujiang County, which was unstoppable.

When the news reached Dangliang, Lu Cong was anxious for the civil and military ministers to discuss countermeasures: "Tang Niu is indeed the tiger general of the world! Although the general is brave, he may not be his opponent." Do you have a way to retreat from the enemy?"

There was silence below, and all the military generals were silent.

In the past few months, I have been defeated repeatedly, and I have experienced the terrible of Tang Niu, the number one military general in the world, and I don't know what to do.

Lu Cong's face was ugly, and he looked around at the ministers with a disappointed expression: "Eat the king's luck, and share your worries for the king." Now Your Majesty treats you well, high-ranking officials have to do it, horses have to ride, and no one can help?"

After being silent for a long time, Tai Lieutenant Sun Ran stepped out of the queue and said: "Prime Minister, we are good at internal affairs and don't know about military affairs, how dare we offer advice indiscriminately?

"Can't I find a person who can deal with Tang Niu among the ministers of civil and military affairs?" Lu Cong was quite disappointed.

"Prime Minister!" Sun Ran replied respectfully, "The subordinate has a township Sima Fa, and since he was a child, he has followed the great virtuous and virtuous Weng layman to learn the art of war. His resourcefulness is unmatched. It's just that this person is very arrogant, and I'm afraid that the prime minister needs to recruit him personally. If you can get it, you will be able to solve the situation of Fujiang!"

"Oh, where is this person now?" Lu Cong hurriedly asked.

"Back to the prime minister, just outside the city of Liang, on the bank of Liang Shui. ”

"In that case, please take me there!"

"Whoa!"

Lu Cong really followed Sun Ran to the bank of Liangshui and found a blue-tiled mud house by the river.

Inside the house, there was a man with a long beard who was reading.

"Is Mr. Sima here?" Sun Ran stepped forward and shouted inside, "Do you remember fellow villager Sun Ran?"

Hearing the voice, the long-bearded man put down the scroll and got up and came outside the house: "Brother Sun, long time no see!"

His eyes turned to Lu Cong, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he arched his hand and said: "I don't know that the prime minister is here, I will miss the distance, and I will forgive my sins!"

When Lu Cong looked at this person, he really had an extraordinary bearing, and his eyes were full of wisdom. It's just that he is puzzled, and he doesn't seem to be as arrogant as Sun Ran said. He immediately asked, "Your Excellency is Mr. Sima?"

"Under Sima Fa!"

"Taiwei recommended Mr. Sima and said that Mr. is a genius in the world......

Before he finished speaking, Sima Fa stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This is true, and the teacher commented on it when he was there. ”

"......" Lu Cong was stunned when he heard this, and secretly said that you are really not modest.

"Mr. Sima," Sun Ran said, "The Prime Minister heard that Mr. is very resourceful, and I have come to ask you to come out of the mountain to help me today." ”

"Oh?" Sima Fa said with a smile on his face, touching his long beard, "I have no intention of being an official, and I ask the prime minister to forgive me!"

"The prime minister came in person, and he values Mr. ...... so much"

"I feel the grace of the prime minister, and I really don't have the heart to be a master!" Sima Fa said with a smile.

Lu Cong hurriedly stepped forward: "Mr. Sima, Emperor Wen is thirsty for talent, and Zhongxing is in need of a capable person like Mr. Zhou Xuan, a national thief, who is the emperor of Changping, and the world is in trouble." The prime minister wants to ask for it and calm the chaos. It's just that his son Tang Niu is known as the world's number one general, extremely brave, and no one can stop him. The general has been defending Fujiang County and has lost several county seats. No one in the DPRK and China can solve this situation, and I hope that Mr. will help!"

"The number one military general in the world?" Sima Fa said with a smile when he heard this, "Mangfuer, it's not worth mentioning!"

"Please also ask Mr. for advice!" Lu Cong hurriedly bowed respectfully.

In the face of Lu Cong's attitude of lowering his figure, Sima Fa didn't want to wave his hand and said: "Zhou Kui's unscrupulous people, Tang Niu's reckless people, are not worth taking action! There is a wise man in the Duosi clan in Chizhou, although this person is a barbarian, he also has some resourcefulness. Although it is not as good as below, it can barely solve the situation of Fujiang. ”

"Guang Yixi?" Lu Cong didn't think this person's name was strange, after all, the Duosi clan was a relatively special ethnic minority in Dacheng, "Why is Mr. Sima reluctant to go out?"

"Don't play chess with mediocre people!" Sima Fa laughed.

"Could it be that Mr. has a strategy, but he wants to sit back and watch the country fall into the hands of traitors?"

"There is only a grass people in the next place, who owns the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, so what do you do next?" Sima Fa looked at Lu Cong with a smile, "The prime minister can go to Duosi County to recruit Guang Yixi, this person is obsessed with power, and he will definitely serve the prime minister." I'm going to read a book next, don't send it!"

After saying that, go straight into the house and close the door.

"Prime Minister," Sun Ran turned around and said, "The minister said before that this person is extremely arrogant. ”

"Well, that's true for people of great talent. Lu Cong sighed, "It seems that the current strength of the prime minister is not enough to make Mr. Sima tempted." But one day, Mr. Sima will be asked to give advice to the prime minister. ”

"Prime Minister, what should I do next?"

"Since Mr. Sima recommended Duo Si Jun Guang Yixi, this prime minister will immediately go to recruit him in person!"

"No!" Sun Ran hurriedly said, "How can the prime minister's daughter go to the barbarian realm in person." Since Mr. Sima said that this person was obsessed with power, he asked the minister to go and recruit him! ”

"It's okay! As long as this person is willing to come, no matter what the conditions are, he can agree!"

Sun Ran immediately went to Duosi County and met Duosi Taishou Gormon.

Through Taishou Gormon, he quickly found Guang Yixi and invited him to Taishou Mansion.

Sun Ran recruited Guang Yixi, and sure enough, the other party immediately agreed and went to Dangliang County with him.

After coming back, Lu Cong assessed in person and found that Guang Yixi was indeed talented, so he was hired as a military advisor and asked how to break the enemy.

Guang Yixi proposed that Lu Cong personally conquer Fujiang and was willing to accompany him.

So Lu Cong led 30,000 troops from Dangliang and quickly rushed to Fujiang County to help Fu Lizhe.

When he arrived at the battlefield, Tang Niu was leading his troops to fight fiercely with Fu Lizhe in Fujiang County.

Lu Cong wanted to lead his troops to raid from the side and relieve Fu Lizhe.

Guang Yixi calculated the location of the enemy's granary and persuaded Lu Cong to bypass the enemy army and attack the granary.

Lu Cong listened to Guang Yixi's advice, so he led his troops around the battlefield, and sure enough, he found the granary behind Tang Niu's troops.

So the surprise soldiers raided, killed the granary guards Chen Yang and Ge Shu, and transported all the enemy's grain to be transported, leaving a fire to burn to the light.

Upon learning that the granary had been stolen, Tang Niu was furious and immediately led his troops to kill him.

Guang Yixi proposed to dig the embankment of the Fujiang River, and the water rushed down, causing the Tang Niu army to be defeated, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were buried in the flood.

Fu Lizhe led his troops out of the city, outflanked Lu Cong's army before and after, and besieged Tang Niu.

The military rations were robbed, and the water plan led to a crushing defeat, Tang Niu could only lead the defeated troops to withdraw from the battlefield and return to Yuanzhou to ask Zhou for his guilt.

Lu Cong's army quickly conquered the lost territory and recaptured the entire city of Fujiang.

Zhou Yijun was defeated, and learned that it was Lu Cong's army division Guang Yixi's strategy, so he summoned civil and military officials to inquire about countermeasures.

Situ Wangyu suggested recruiting talents, although there were the world's first generals in the army, there were no strong strategists, so they were defeated.

Zhou Jie listened to the suggestion and immediately issued a recruitment order, recruiting heroes and wise people in the world, and for a while, the servants were like clouds, which was completely different from the effect of Huajun's recruitment order.

At the same time, following Guang Yixi's strategy, Lu Cong personally led the army to attack Bashui County.

Shi Chubai, the assassin of Xizhou, sent troops to fight together and besieged the city on all sides.

The city ran out of food and could not be reinforced, so it had no choice but to surrender.

In the same month, Zheng Mu, the assassin of Wuzhou, repelled Wu Xin, the assassin of Gongzhou, and occupied Baotai County.

However, it did not stop, and sent troops to attack Jinping County and Chongwen County at the same time.

Although the two camps of Zhou Jie and Lu Cong were temporarily hot, the other princes continued to fight among themselves.

At this time, in the sixteen states of Dacheng, a new chamber of commerce group quietly emerged and developed rapidly.

Yunzhou, Miliang County.

"Stop!" the gate guard stopped a group of merchants, "but there are customs clearance papers!"

"Yes, yes!" was the first person who immediately handed it over respectfully.

"What is the Dahua Chamber of Commerce?" the city gate guard asked suspiciously after reading the documents.

"General, the Chamber of Commerce is naturally an association of merchants. The leader replied respectfully, "Now that there are wars and thieves, it is also dangerous for us to run around in business. But when we are united, we can help each other, share the prices of various places, and make money together. At the same time, it is also relatively convenient to transport and sell goods between states and counties. ”

"General, a copy of the Dacheng Dictionary has been found from each of them!" the soldier came to report.

"What does it mean that a man in business has a Dacheng dictionary on him, and everybody has it, explain!" the gatekeeper scanned the crowd solemnly.

"General, this is the rule of the Chamber of Commerce. First, it reminds us not to forget the efforts of our ancestors, no matter how chaotic the world is, we must also remember that we are Dacheng people; secondly, because the Chamber of Commerce is located in 16 states across the country, many commodity names are inevitably incomplete, which may cause mistakes, and you can query them at any time with a dictionary. ”

"And what are these?" the general of the garrison pointed to another pile of scrolls that had been searched and filled with numbers.

"General, these are our account books!" the leader quickly picked up one of the account books and opened it, "It details the number of materials that the Chamber of Commerce needs to order and sell, and then there is a notepad that records the prices of goods in various places, you can check it casually." ”

Although the generals defending the city flipped through it, except for a few scrolls full of numbers, they didn't find anything suspicious: "What's going on?"

"General Yu, these are the words that our Chamber of Commerce usually practiced. The leader replied, "The number of doing business must be clarified, so ......"

"Okay!" Since there was nothing suspicious, the gatekeeper waved his hand, "Let go!"

"General Xie!"

The caravan successfully passed through the checkpoint, and after leaving, it made its way all the way to the post station outside the city.

The leader handed the scrolls full of numbers to the manager of the Chamber of Commerce's post station, and whispered, "Send these back to the headquarters, the latest information!"

The post manager nodded, carefully put away these scrolls, and at the same time took out another batch of scrolls full of numbers, and handed them to the other party: "These are pieces of information from other places, you take a copy." Remember to avoid the combat area as much as possible!"

The leader opens the Dacheng dictionary, turns the pages according to the numbers on the scroll, and writes down the words one by one to form a sentence. After reading it, he immediately destroyed the bamboo slips and left them to the post station manager: "Understood! ”

At the same time, members of the Dentons 16 State Chamber of Commerce all operated in this format.

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